Nigerian Optometric Association Gets New Leadership

After a keenly contested election, which was part of the activities lined up for the just concluded 46th Annual Nigerian Optometric Association Conference & Vision Expo, which took place at Asaba, Delta State Nigeria; Dr Anderson Chimeziri emerged as the winner. The new NOA President and other members of the National Executive Council, some of […]

Optometrists Call for Government Action on Rising Visual Impairment

Optometrists in Nigeria have called on the government at all levels to review its strategy towards combating the rising statistics of visual impairments in the country. President of the Nigerian Optometrists Association, who made the call at the 46th National Conference & Vision Expo in Asaba also wants President Bola Tinubu to reconsider the government’s […]

An Address by The NOA President Dr Obinna Awiaka, During the 2022 World Sight Day

The Nigerian Optometric Association gladly joins the World Health Organization (W.H.O), the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), the Ministry of Health and the rest of the world to celebrate World Sight Day (WSD), which is usually marked every 2nd Thursday in October. This year’s World Sight Day is on Thursday, October 13th, 2022, […]

PROF UCHE IKONNE COMMISSIONS OPTOMETRY HOUSE

As part of activities at the ongoing 45th Nigerian Optometric Association (NOA) Annual Conference & Vision Expo; the Optometry House was unveiled on Thursday, July 14, 2020. The epoch-making event, which took place immediately after the inspection of the exhibition stand of the NOA conference and scientific expo, was anchored by Prof. E.U. Ikonne, President […]

NOA Collaborates with Other Eye Practitioners, FG for Strategic Eye Health Development Plan

Full Representation at the National Eye Health Strategic Development Plan. A two-day Stakeholders meeting was held in Abuja( 1st- 2nd Aug.2022), to validate the Eye Health Policy Document of the Ministry of Health. Attendance includes; The Registrar of the Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Registration Board of Nigeria ( ODORBN), Prof. (Mrs). E. B Uzodike; the […]

Esteemed Colleagues: Health Sector Reform Committee

The attention of the Nigerian Optometric Association has been drawn to a State House Press Release of September 6th, 2021, on the Setting Up of Health Sector Reform Committee by President Muhammadu Buhari. The committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osibanjo has been mandated to review all healthcare reforms adopted in the past two decades, […]